About January 22
January 22, 2024 is the 22nd day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 344 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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Aquarius is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Garnet is the modern birthstone for this month. Emerald is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 19 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On January 22
- 1689 –The Convention Parliament convenes to determine if James II, the last Roman Catholic king of England, had vacated the throne when he fled to France in 1688.
- 1824 –The Ashantis defeat British forces in the Gold Coast.
- 1849 –Second Anglo-Sikh War: The Siege of Multan ends after nine months when the last Sikh defenders of Multan, Punjab, surrender.
- 1879 –Anglo-Zulu War: Battle of Rorke’s Drift – 139 British soldiers successfully defend their garrison against an intense assault by four to five thousand Zulu warriors.
- 1905 –Bloody Sunday in St. Petersburg, beginning of the 1905 revolution.
- 1924 –Ramsay MacDonald becomes the first Labour Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
- 1927 –First live radio commentary of a football match anywhere in the world, between Arsenal F.C. and Sheffield United at Highbury.
- 1941 –World War II: British and Commonwealth troops capture Tobruk from Italian forces during Operation Compass.
- 1947 –KTLA, the first commercial television station west of the Mississippi River, begins operation in Hollywood, California.
- 1957 –Israel withdraws from the Sinai Peninsula.
- 1968 –Apollo 5 lifts off carrying the first Lunar module into space.
- 1968 –Operation Igloo White, a US electronic surveillance system to stop communist infiltration into South Vietnam begins installation.
- 1973 –A chartered Boeing 707 explodes in flames upon landing at Kano Airport, Nigeria, killing 176.
- 1973 –The Supreme Court of the United States delivers its decision in Roe v. Wade, legalizing elective abortion in all fifty states.
- 1987 –Pennsylvania politician R. Budd Dwyer shoots and kills himself during a televised press conference, leading to debates on boundaries in journalism.
- 1991 –Gulf War: Three SCUDs and one Patriot missile hit Ramat Gan in Israel, injuring 96 people. Three elderly people die of heart attacks.
- 1995 –Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Beit Lid massacre – In central Israel, near Netanya, two suicide bombers from the Gaza Strip blow themselves up at a military transit point killing 19 Israelis.
- 1999 –Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two sons are burned alive by radical Hindus while sleeping in their car in Eastern India.
- 2002 –Kmart becomes the largest retailer in United States history to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
- 2042 –New Year’s Day in Chinese calendar. Start of the year of the Water Dog in Chinese astrology.
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